From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ayaz Abdulla Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23) Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:33:50 -0500 Message-ID: <47A74C7E.8080101@nvidia.com> References: <200802050746.m157ktY9010399@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <47A8A90B.6010602@garzik.org> <20080205105909.fd8c6dbe.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jeff Garzik , netdev@vger.kernel.org, michael.pyne@kdemail.net, LKML To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Received: from hqemgate03.nvidia.com ([216.228.112.145]:1360 "EHLO hqemgate03.nvidia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758994AbYBETKB (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:10:01 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20080205105909.fd8c6dbe.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:20:59 -0500 Jeff Garzik wrote: > > >>>Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton >> >>NAK - this fixes one set of users, and breaks a working set of users. >> >>Need to add DMI check for the specific motherboard (dmi_check_system), >>and flip flag according to success/failure of that check. > > > OK :) I added the above to the changelog for next time. > > You guys can hide, but this patch isn't going away! I believe Michael determined that a newer BIOS fixes this issue. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------